Professional CertificationsAttorney and Certified Public AccountantProfessional Affiliations / MembershipsAmerican Bar Association and its sections on Business Law and Taxation
State Bar of Michigan and its sections on Business Law, Real Property, and Taxation
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its Division of Taxation
Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants
American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants

Publications / PresentationsCommunications Made to Tax Advisors for Tax Planning or Defending Tax Controversy Purposes: “When What You Say May Be Used Against You," CCH State Tax Review, Vol. 60, Issue No. 31 (1999). Mr. Sartori is also acknowledged by the authors of Federal Tax Research 7th and 8th Editions (Raabe, Whittenburg, and Sanders, Thomson South-Western Publishing, 2005, 2008) for his contributions to their text.

BiographyMr. Sartori is a partner and practicing attorney with the law firm of Howard & Howard in its metro Detroit, Michigan office. The majority of Mr. Sartori’s practice is devoted to the areas of general corporate, commercial transactions, real estate and tax law. He represents and counsels a number of individuals, and closely-held and publicly-traded businesses, engaged in a diverse array of industries on a wide variety of legal and business matters including mergers and acquisitions, transaction structuring, contract negotiations and drafting, licensing, financing, entity structuring, succession planning, estate and tax planning, shareholder and member disputes, and general corporate matters. Mr. Sartori has made appearances on his clients’ behalf in various federal and state courts and has acted as an arbitrator in complex business dispute matters.

Mr. Sartori received both a B.S. in Accounting in 1983 and an M.B.A. in 1986 from Oakland University, and an M.S. in Taxation from Walsh College in 1993. In January 1998, he received a J.D., summa cum laude, from the Michigan State University College of Law where he was the recipient of Jurisprudence Awards in Arbitration, Commercial Transactions, Constitutional Law, and Estate Planning & Drafting and other honors. Mr. Sartori has been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Michigan since 1989 and practices from the unique perspective of having owned and operated his own business prior to becoming an attorney or CPA.

Mr. Sartori is a member of the American Bar Association and its sections on Business Law and Taxation, and the State Bar of Michigan and its sections on Business Law, Real Property, and Taxation. Mr. Sartori is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its Division of Taxation, the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, and the American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants. For the latter organization, Mr. Sartori acts as liaison to the Internal Revenue Service for the State of Michigan.

Mr. Sartori is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and an Adjunct Professor of Business Law and Taxation for Walsh College’s graduate school of business. He has taught in excess of thirty semesters of graduate school education. Mr. Sartori has acted as legal counsel in numerous shareholder and member disputes matters having an aggregate business value in excess of one-hundred million dollars.

Mr. Sartori’s publications include: Communications Made to Tax Advisors for Tax Planning or Defending Tax Controversy Purposes: “When What You Say May Be Used Against You," CCH State Tax Review, Vol. 60, Issue No. 31 (1999). Mr. Sartori is also acknowledged by the authors of Federal Tax Research 7th and 8th Editions (Raabe, Whittenburg, and Sanders, Thomson South-Western Publishing, 2005, 2008) for his contributions to their text. Mr. Sartori is admitted to practice in the state courts of Michigan, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the U.S. Tax Court.

Walsh College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (www.hlcommission.org; phone: 312-263-0456). Specific degree programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP, www.acbsp.org).